Will the greater regulatory risk to AI come from existing sector-specific regulation, or from new AI-specific regulatory capture and overreach?

Aaron Levie · May 22, 2024

Existing legal frameworks are largely sufficient for the dangerous use cases of AI, with new regulation needed only for genuinely novel ones

It doesn't take much imagination to picture a weaponized robot dog with multimodal AI, but most such harms are already addressable in law

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Michael Eisenberg · Jun 19, 2024

The regulatory constraint on AI will come mainly from existing sector regulation rather than from the regulatory-capture dynamic everyone is discussing

Regulated industries like farming and financial services already have rules regulators must apply to AI, and that will govern deployment more than new AI-specific lock-in

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Harry Stebbings · Jun 19, 2024 · hedged

The biggest risk to AI is that regulators who fear losing control impose punitive data-access regulation, causing a real plateau in AI system development

Scope: framed as his own concern rather than a prediction

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Harry Stebbings · Jul 31, 2024 · hedged

Europe's regulation may become so constraining that it causes a plateauing of AI in both development and adoption

The EU is particularly talented at regulation and the act is incredibly stringent

Scope: framed as his personal worry

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David Luan · Jun 24, 2024

The main regulatory risk in AI is regulatory capture by incumbent frontier labs, not over-regulation of data usage

Because only a few frontier model companies can exist at steady state, the move to pull up the ladder behind them has already begun; lawmakers don't understand the technology and default to listening to the most credible sources, who usually have ulterior motives

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David Luan · Jun 24, 2024

Regulatory capture in AI will make it harder to build on open source and harder for new companies to train and scale new AI ideas, producing another concentration of power

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